Apply for the new Discovery Centre Fellowship

CCMS Editor — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:42:34 +0000

�Ӱ�ԭ�� University’s Discovery Centre supports innovation in undergraduate studies and has become known as a place where different avenues to education can be explored. The Discovery Centre has established a new fellowship to provide an opportunity for �Ӱ�ԭ�� faculty members to further develop or innovate their teaching and make an impact to the broader academic community.

Recipients will receive a research grant of $5,000 for teaching projects and funding for up to two teaching releases (one per term). Up to two fellowships will be awarded each year.

Applications are due by April 30 and should be submitted by email to the administrative assistant of the Discovery Centre (aleksandra.minic@carleton.ca). The fellowship will be taken up on July 1.

Get more information about the fellowship and the application form here.

Recently funded educational projects – and how you can get funding too!

CCMS Editor — Tue, 22 May 2018 19:23:29 +0000

Teaching and Learning Services offers four internal grants to faculty members and contract instructors interested in both experimenting with new approaches to teaching and learning, and research about university teaching. The grant program enables instructors to develop and redesign their courses, conduct scholarly investigations of all aspects of teaching and learning, and attend conference to disseminate knowledge about their teaching practices.

Recently funded projects include:

Kevin Hamdan, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies: The effects of using mobile classroom response system on students’ engagement and performance
Melanie Adrian, Department of Law and Legal Studies: Multiple-choice exams: An opportunity for active learning?
Kim Hellemans, Department of Neuroscience: Exploring academic buoyancy among university students: A literature review
Christopher Cox, School of Linguistics and Language Studies: Bringing collaboration into the classroom: Community Service Learning in university-based language documentation courses
Mira Sucharov, Department of Political Science: Op-ed writing and social media engagement: A guide for students and scholars
Paul Jasen, Department of Music: Redesign of the Department of Music’s digital audio production curriculum to include experiential learning
Marc Saurette, Department of History: Development and beta testing of the new digitization seminar for students in the Department of History to provide hands-on experiential learning
Véronic Bézaire, Department of Chemistry: Developing an online interactive tool and redesign of in-class learning activities
Pamela J. Walker, Department of History: Developing Reacting to the Past game for women’s history courses
Peggy Hartwick, School of Linguistics and Language Studies, and Shermeen Nizami, Systems and Computer Engineering, are recipients of the Educational Conference Travel Grant, which will support their presentations at academic conferences in summer 2018. Peggy will present about cuPortfolio integration in her classes at the annual meeting of the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning, while Shermeen’s paper titled Integrated information rich engineering course design was accepted for the Annual International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society conference. Contract instructor Tracy Hodgson-Drysdale, from the School of Linguistics and Language Studies, also received a grant to attend the 2018 annual Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress in Boston and present about Teaching Science Writing Informed by SFL: A Continuum of Learning.

Find out how you can apply for the four teaching and learning grants here.

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Apply for the new Discovery Centre Fellowship

Recently funded educational projects – and how you can get funding too!